Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the subject of a lawsuit for violating the Illinois Biometric Privacy Act (BIPA). This is the latest in a string of BIPA violation suits filed against major corporations in the state of Illinois, where the act aims to protect individuals from having their biometric data recorded, stored, or used without…
Auraya’s EVA voice biometrics platform is now compatible with OpenID Connect 1.0, paving the way for more extensive integrations into third party platforms and systems. First announced earlier this summer, EVA is a voice recognition solution designed for Amazon Connect, Amazon Web Services’ contact center platform. It essentially allows clients using Amazon Connect to leverage…
Amazon is now calling for government regulation of facial recognition technology, even as it defends sales of its own such technology to law enforcement authorities. In a new post on the Amazon Web Services Machine Learning blog, the company’s VP of Global Public Policy, Michael Punke, writes, “We support the calls for an appropriate national…
“Utilizing Megazone’s Mine Pass, we will be able to customize development and deployment to meet the needs of enterprise customers in addition to SaaS services in the future, and will provide customers with a market-proven solution that has been officially accredited by FIDO.” – Max Lee, CEO, Megazone Korea-based cloud services provider Megazone has acquired FIDO…
An important new certification could significantly expand Pindrop’s customer base. The company has announced that its eponymous call analytics solution has now been certified by Amazon Web Services (AWS) for use with Amazon Connect. Amazon Connect is aimed at providing businesses with a streamlined process for setting up a call center. Its integration of Pindrop…
Amazon has announced a new AI system based on deep learning that can not only recognize faces, but the emotions they express, as well as objects, animals, and all kinds of other things. It’s called Amazon Rekognition. The system is available through Amazon Web Services, having launched in Northern Virginia, Oregon, and Ireland. Developers can access…
Extenua and ImageWare‘s Cloud2Drive system has launched, the companies have announced. The platform has now made its debut on Amazon Web Services. The system is essentially a cloud storage platform using ImageWare’s multimodal biometric identification technology for user authentication. It also features what the companies call “the industry’s most hardened encryption system”, as well as…